Tarski's theorem on intuitionistic logic,for polyhedra |
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Authors: | Nick Bezhanishvili Vincenzo Marra Daniel McNeill Andrea Pedrini |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Dipartimento di Matematica “Federigo Enriques”, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Cesare Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy;3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell''Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, via Edoardo Orabona, 4, 70125 Bari, Italy;4. Dipartimento di Matematica “Felice Casorati”, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Via Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy |
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Abstract: | In 1938, Tarski proved that a formula is not intuitionistically valid if, and only if, it has a counter-model in the Heyting algebra of open sets of some topological space. In fact, Tarski showed that any Euclidean space with suffices, as does e.g. the Cantor space. In particular, intuitionistic logic cannot detect topological dimension in the Heyting algebra of all open sets of a Euclidean space. By contrast, we consider the lattice of open subpolyhedra of a given compact polyhedron , prove that it is a locally finite Heyting subalgebra of the (non-locally-finite) algebra of all open sets of P, and show that intuitionistic logic is able to capture the topological dimension of P through the bounded-depth axiom schemata. Further, we show that intuitionistic logic is precisely the logic of formulæ valid in all Heyting algebras arising from polyhedra in this manner. Thus, our main theorem reconciles through polyhedral geometry two classical results: topological completeness in the style of Tarski, and Ja?kowski's theorem that intuitionistic logic enjoys the finite model property. Several questions of interest remain open. E.g., what is the intermediate logic of all closed triangulable manifolds? |
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Keywords: | primary 03B20 secondary 06D20 06D22 55U10 Intuitionistic logic Topological semantics Heyting algebra Polyhedron Triangulation PL topology |
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